TSA Detains Yet Another Child: A Wheelchair-Bound 12-Year-Old
She supposedly tested positive for explosives. 
Lisa Simeone writes at TSANewsBlog:
As we've reported many times, the TSA's so-called explosive detection devices routinely alarm on ordinary, everyday things. Have you been working in your garden? Oops. You might have fertilizer residue on you. Do you use hand or body lotions? Oops. There's glycerin in them thar things. All those can get you hauled aside as a potential terrorist. Because fertilizer and glycerin show up as "bomb-making residue."It happens all the time. TSA agents know it happens all the time. They even joke about it. And it just happened to a 12-year-old, wheelchair-bound child named Shelbi Walser. She was traveling with her mother for medical treatment when she was flagged by the TSA at Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport and detained for almost an hour. Shelbi's mother's name is Tammy Daniels.
Daniels said a bomb specialist showed up and TSA agents prevented her from getting close to her crying daughter.
Preventing you from comforting your child is standard TSA practice, as Isabella Brademeyer's mother and plenty of others can tell you.
Simeone, like me, is amazed that the TSA thugs didn't stop the mother from videotaping, as they so often do (if they get paid to ignore your Fourth Amendment rights, why would they respect your First Amendment ones?). Here's the video:
KMSP-TV
And yet, has this "explosive residue detection" _ever_ actually found a bomb?
Don't bother. Rhetorical question.
David L. Burkhead at December 14, 2012 6:43 AM
This is totally unacceptable that we let this happen. We wouldn't allow parents to mentally abuse a child but these thugs are allowed and we are expected to stand by and watch???? Everyone needs to see these videos and be aware that this is happening!
Maura at December 14, 2012 7:17 AM
It amazes me that there are SO many people out there who. Just. Don't. Get. It.
Flynne at December 14, 2012 7:25 AM
Hey, Amy, I had a thought bounce off my head. The next time you have to fly somewhere, you should find a burka (or at least wear the head scarf and other accoutrements) and claim to be a good Muslim woman, and that you will not have your virtue called into question by being pawed at by the infidel dogs manning a TSA checkpoint.
I'm curious if you would get treated differently than you have been.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 14, 2012 7:38 AM
@I R A Darth Aggie, I am somewhat curious myself as to what might happen.
Potentially, I can see a big market for burqas and an Alice's Restaurant sort of movement.
jerry at December 14, 2012 8:32 AM
I don't know how up to date this article I linked below is--I'm swamped at work and we had our 4th break-in in less than 2-weeks so it's kind of crazy here. But from the last time I checked at an official site, it seems about the same. I just grabbed the Sikh one. I have no idea if this applies to Muslims.
http://sikhism.about.com/od/culture/a/Culture.htm
Meloni at December 14, 2012 10:15 AM
If that were my child in a wheelchair, crying and needing comfort, they would need a bunch of guys to keep me away from her. There would be a scene. I'd risk jail.
Steve Daniels at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM
I'm with Steve. I double dog dare ANYONE to try and keep my from my (hypothetical) child. I'd likely have a couple of assault charges slapped on there on the way to prison because I'll kick the shit out of anyone who tries to stop me. I made a scene once about my co-worker being searched and almost got myself arrested a few months back (Amy, I still need to send you THAT story); I can only imagine how protective I'd be with my own child.
Before anyone says that violence is never the answer, I beg to differ. Sometimes, violence is the only answer. When it comes to protecting ones family, against a criminal or the government, violence is not only unavoidable but sometimes it's necassary. The example I will set for my children is that their parents will fight to protect them at all costs and that it's okay, nay, necassary, to stick up for your rights. If that comes at the cost of my personal freedom, or even my own life, so be it.
I will never, ever, be tolerant of the TSA. I will not engage in polite discourse regarding it with anyone nor will I ever be "open-minded" about it. As far as I am concerned, this is a you're either with me, or against me, subject.
Sabrina at December 14, 2012 12:11 PM
My girls gave me this t-shirt for Mother's Day few years ago, it is still available on Cafepress:
http://www.cafepress.com/mf/33330204/mother-liberty_tshirt
That pretty well sums it up for me.
Kat at December 15, 2012 1:52 PM
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